Trombone Shorty Quotes

The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.

There are lots of things I could have done for the money, but I've made a great living doing the things I want to do.

I've been very, very fortunate. I never had to work for a living.

If you're lucky enough to be raised in a rich family, good. But learn how to respect that luck. It's not a given, you know? It's not like, 'Well, it's normal'. No, it's not normal. It's lucky.

A lot of people say I've missed out on a lot because I started acting at such a young age. What's so obvious to me is that I actually was really lucky. I gained a lot and I got a head start in what I wanted to do in life. A lot of people in their late 20s, early 30s are just beginning to figure out where they want to go.

I used to routinely turn down things that might compound the impression that I was some kind of vacuous blonde. But now, when I look back, I think I should have done them because I would be very rich - being taken seriously isn't all it's cracked up to be.

I spent 50 years in the NBA. Can you imagine doing something that you love the most in the entire world and doing it for your entire life and, besides that, getting a pile of money for it? It's unbelievable. I'm the luckiest guy in the world. And I know it.

I got my agents right out of school, and I booked my first commercial right away. It was always enough to not quit and do something else.

I was very lucky - it wasn't a question of being wealthy; my father was just extremely lucky with the couple of jobs he got. So we got a chance to travel when nobody else could travel.

Ariana Grande is a billionaire before she's been an artist. You have to work to be able to appreciate what you have... what work did she ever have to do in her life?

You have to remember, I never became successful or wealthy till I was 30.

After boarding school in Switzerland, at, like, 14 or 15, my life clicked, and I just realized, 'I don't want to be like anyone around me at my school. I don't think the world revolves around money.'

I've been kind of lucky. I've always just kind of followed whatever my passion was, and that seems to have led me to better places than if I had followed some career trajectory, which I wouldn't even know how to start.

I don't think it changes who you are inside. But when you have a lot of money, it makes a lot of things easier. That's why everyone wants to be successful.

I was lucky to be passionate about a field that was full of opportunity.

I'm in a small percentage of people that get to do what they love to do for a living. I'm lucky.

I realize how fortunate I am to have been able to make a life and career out of skiing.

Hard work. Well, that=s all right for people who don=t know how to do anything else. It=s all right for people who aren=t lucky. But once you==re lucky, you don=t have to work for other people. You make them work for you.

It's a very wonderful yet difficult thing to be given a lot of really good opportunities and the world is at your fingertips.

I got to see the American Dream unfold in my living room.

If you happen to be in the right place at the right time, the capitalist system is a beautiful thing.

Benefitting from a job bubble is not only a first world problem, it's an upper-class-educated-lucky-to-be-in-the-right-industry-at-the-right-time kind of first world problem.

There are a lot better musicians than me out there that just haven't had the luck to fall into everything like I have.

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.

I'm living the American dream.